Xi Carries Out Historic Purge: 33 Communist Party Officials Expelled, Top Generals Removed
\n\nChina's ruling Communist Party has expelled 33 senior political and military officials, marking a major escalation in President Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign as he prepares for a leadership reshuffle in 2027. The expulsions were confirmed on Thursday at the conclusion of a four-day, closed-door meeting of the party's Central Committee in Beijing. Among those removed were former top generals Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli, former Xinjiang party chief Ma Xingrui, and prominent diplomat Liu Jianchao.
\n\nThe scale of the purge was reflected in the unusually low attendance at the gathering. Only 279 Central Committee members attended, compared with 315 at the previous plenum in October 2025 and 364 in July 2024.
\n\nThe current Central Committee began its term in 2022 with more than 370 members. The latest figures suggest that nearly 100 officials have been removed from the committee over the past four years.
\n\n“This is the biggest purge in history,” Wen-Hsuan Tsai, a research fellow at Taiwan's Academia Sinica who studies the Chinese Communist Party, said of the number of officials removed from the committee.
\n\nSixteen of the 33 officials expelled were from the military, highlighting…
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